With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this โexciting [and] suspensefulโ (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcherโs Boy.
โA bravura performance.โโChicago Tribune
He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says heโs a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcherโs Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, thereโs been a price on his head.
Now, after a decade, theyโve found him. The Butcherโs Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him . . . until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide . . . until heโs locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces. . . .